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Adora Svitak Quotes

We always reference kids but very rarely ask their opinion. Our inexperience might be what gives us the ability to teach our elders something, due to the fact that we are not jaded or cynical.

Adora Svitak

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: October 15, 1997

Topics

Opinion Elders Teach Ask Ability Us

Earlier I had been in New York, which was my first time to New York, and I got booked in the Baby Grand up in Harlem there. I was booked there for a week; they kept me there for about a month. That's where Doc Pomus and myself became very close friends and start running together around town and what not.

Jimmy Scott

Time Myself Together New York Baby

If you think about the way the hearings were structured, the hearings were really about Thomas' race and my gender.

Anita Hill

Think Gender You Way Race Really

I was a very religious kid. I was raised as an Episcopalian.

Steven Seagal

Kid I Was Raised Religious Raised

My dad got into this group, Commission, with Fred Hammond, and that was my biggest gospel memory. I would hear that all the time, and listening to their voices helped me develop my voice because I would try to emulate them as a kid. It taught me tone, and it gave me a balance.

Ro James

Time Balance Memory Me Listening

I have always worked and did my work on the fringe, where I have feel very comfortable.

RuPaul

Work Feel Comfortable Always Where

I also saw the Dalai Lama a few times.

Martin Scorsese

Saw Few Dalai Lama Times Also Dalai

Once you become a professional, to get through a ballet like 'Swan Lake' - four acts as the lead, changing character - the perseverance is incredible. It takes a lot to make it through and keep the same energy throughout the entire performance.

Misty Copeland

Perseverance Character Energy You

Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession.

Mitch McConnell

Think Taxes Recession Middle Raising

I've learned that you have to take responsibility for yourself in this game and lead yourself through it.

Jason Giambi

Responsibility Yourself Game You

You have to do what you have to do. I wanted to work. I wanted to prove that I was worthy of being here... and I was gonna do whatever it took to prove that.

Jose Antonio Vargas

Work You Prove Worthy Whatever Here

Flag-burning is plain wrong, and I'll stand up for free speech - even speech I don't like.

Deborah K. Ross

Free Stand Up Stand Speech Wrong Up

But one led to two, two led to four, four led to eight, until at the end it was about 85 a day - the doctors could not believe I was taking that much. And that was just the valium - I'm not talking about the other pills I went through.

Corey Haim

Day Believe End Talking Not Talking